Craig Brewer feels Kate Hudson’s talents as an actress are under appreciated

Craig Brewer feels Kate Hudson’s talents as an actress are under appreciated.

Kate , 46, stars with Hugh Jackman in Brewer’s new movie Song Sung Blue as couple Mike and Claire Sardina, who perform as the Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning and Thunder, and Craig wanted to showcase Kate’s range as a performer.

He told Variety: “When I’ve been in meetings and people start naming great actresses - the Kate Winslets of the world and so many others - I always say, ‘You know, Kate Hudson’s right here. Why aren’t we talking about Kate?’

I think Kate has been, and this may be an extreme word, in a kind of prison of her own gifts. She’s so winning in that delightful entertainment space - the movies she’s known for, like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. But I’ve always felt she was greatly underused.

A”s soon as Hugh and I started talking about her, I thought, ‘I don’t even need to think about this.’ If we can say, ‘This is who we want,’ and if Kate wants to do it, then that’s what we’re going to do.”